Reenforced folder or file holder



April 3, 192s. C. E. CATHER REENFORCED FOLDER OR FILE HOLDER Filed July9. 1926 Patented Apr. 3, 1928.,

UNITED STATES insane 'PATENT-orifice.

CHARLES E. CATHER, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSGNOR TO UNTED STATESENVELOPE COMPANY, F SRINGFELD, MASSACT-USETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

REENFORGED FOLDER OR FILE HOLDER.

Application led July 9,

The present invention relatesto a folder adapted for the retention ofcorrespondence files, records, and the like, which is so constructed asto present its contents to inspection in the order in which' the samewere fastened in the folder. The several features of the invention arefully set forth in the following description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Fig. l is a plan View of the sheet orblank from which the folder of my invention is constructed.

Fig. 2 is an edge. view, showing the sheet of Fig. 1 as it is folded andequipped to provide the correspondence holder of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the folder in the position of attachmentthereto of correspondence and the like.

Fig. 3a is an edgewise view in the same position as Fig. 3.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the holder with the correspondence in normalposition.

Fig. 5 is an edge wise view, showing the same position as Fig. 4.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures.

Referring first the Figs. l and 2, the folder is preferably made from arectangular sheet 30 1 of stiff heavy paper, said sheet being foldedtransversely along the line 2 to provide a double thickness ofconsiderable depth near the top, as shown in Fig. 2. Before folding thesheet 'l back upon itself along the line 2, said sheet has aflixedthereto, between the line 2 and a parallel scored 'line 3, a pluralityof metallic or other fasteners 4, 4, preferably of the bendable tonguetype, these fasteners having attaching spurs which pass through thematerial and are clenched on the back side of the sheet.

Vhen the material of the sheet is folded back upon itself along the line2, the double thickness provides a backing for the fasteners 4, 4, whichcovers the clenched-over prongs of said fasteners, which prongs, if leftexposed, would be apt to catch on the edges of the papers and otherfiles or correspondence holders. To insure permanent coverage of theseprongs and to provide suitable reenforcement for the upper end of thefolder, the doubled-over portion, beyond the line 2, is adhesivelysecured to the back of the sheet by suitable gumming, as indi- 1926.Serial No. 121,473.

cated at 5. rlhis folding on the line 2 brings the scored line 6 intoregistry with the scored line 3, so that the folder, as thusconstructed, appears, when viewed from its edge, as shown in Fig. 2. Inthis condition, it is ready for the attachment thereto of correspondenceand the like, which attachment is effected in the following manner.

The extreme upper edge of the folder carrying the fasteners 4, 4 is thepart to which the correspondence is attached, and this attachment iseffected by bending up the tongues 7, 7 of the fasteners 4, 4 so thatsaid tongues will pierce the material of or pass through holespreviously made in the sheets to be held by the folder. Each successivesheet 8 to be held in the folder is turned face down and inverted, sothat its upper front margin, as shown in Figs. 3`and 3a, is opposed toand overlaps that portion of the folder which carries the fasteners 4,4. The overlapping of the front margin of sheet 8 is impaled on theprongs 7, 7, of said fasteners, after which said fasteners are bent backinto. normal position, thereby securing the sheet 8 to the folder. Then,as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the fastener-carrying portion of the folderis bent or turned down along the registering score lines 3, 6, so thatthe sheet 8 comes front face uppermost and in proper position so thatprinting or writing on its front face can be read. Subsequent sheets, orcorrespondence bearing on the same subject matter and, therefore,desired to be filed in the same folder, are att-ached in the same manneras the first sheet 8, namely by lirst turning back the fastener-carryingportion, then laying said sheets 9 and 1() face` down and in invertedposition, so that their upper front margins overlap and oppose thefasteners 4, 4, and then impaling said margins on said fasteners,-sothat when lthe folder resumes its normal condition, as illustrated inFigs. 4 and 5, the several sheets 8, 9 and 10 are presented to the userin chronological or consecutive order, the earliest attached sheet beingalways nppermost in the lile, and the others following in the order oftheir filing.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a reenforced folder or file-holdercomprising a backing sheet having one or more fasteners secured theretonear its upper edge, the mae terial of said'edge beyond said fastenersbe-I forcement for said fasteners, and the domu-` bled portion carryingsaid fasteners being folded forwardly so as to cause said fasteners t0face the front of said sheet, whereby to present the successive papersattached by said fasteners to said folder "in the order of theirattachment thereto. Y

2. As a new article of manufacture, a reenforced folder or file-holdercomprising a backing sheet having onelor more fasteners secured theretoby attaching spurs near its upper edge, the materialV of said edgebeyond said fasteners being` folded baekwardly to'cover said attaching'spurs `and secured by adhesivetothe rear face of said sheet as aVreenforcenient for said fasteners, and the doubled portion carrying saidfasteners being folded forwardly so A"as "to cause said fasteners toface `the front of saidshe'et, Whereby to present the successive papersattached by said .fasteners to said folder in the order of theirattachment thereto.

Datedth'is lseventh 4day of'July, 1926.

i CHARLES n. GATHER;

